{"72470":{"#nid":"72470","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Gilda Barabino Elected BMES President","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGilda Barabino was elected president of the Biomedical\nEngineering Society, it was announced at the 2011 BMES Annual Meeting in\nHartford, Connecticut. She begins her two-year term in October 2012 at the\nSociety\u2019s next annual meeting in Atlanta. Barabino is the first underrepresented\nminority and second woman to be elected president of BMES since it was\nestablished in 1968.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBarabino commented on her new role: \u201cMy vision for BMES, our\nprofession and the institutions and entities that represent biomedical\nengineering, is that we practice and are characterized by diversity inclusion\nand that we serve as a model for others in doing so. Diversity inclusion is a\nterm coined to denote a characteristic where an institution demonstrates\nthrough its policies and practices that diversity is central to its mission \u2013\nthis characteristic is essential to drive future innovation in our field. I\nwill work tirelessly to lead by example and anticipate that others will follow\nsuit.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBarabino is professor of biomedical engineering in the\nCoulter Department, where she also serves as Associate Chair for Graduate\nStudies. She joined the department in 2007 after an 18-year career at\nNortheastern University, where she rose to the rank of professor and served as\nthe vice provost for Undergraduate Education. In 2008 - 2009, she served as\nvice provost for Academic Diversity (VPAD), the first to hold the VPAD position\nat Georgia Tech. She is a leading advocate for diversity in the STEM fields,\ntraveling widely to speak and give workshops on the topic. In addition to STEM\ndiversity in higher education, her research focuses on sickle cell adhesion,\ncellular engineering and tissue engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWritten by Adrianne Proeller \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGilda Barabino was elected president of the Biomedical\nEngineering Society, it was announced at the 2011 BMES Annual Meeting in\nHartford, Connecticut.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Gilda Barabino was elected president of the Biomedical Engineering Society, it was announced at the 2011 BMES Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2011-11-08 11:38:37","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:38","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-11-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-11-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"72624":{"id":"72624","type":"image","title":"Gilda Barabino","body":null,"created":"1449177942","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:25:42","changed":"1475894661","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:21","alt":"Gilda Barabino","file":{"fid":"193692","name":"gilda_barabinosm.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gilda_barabinosm_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gilda_barabinosm_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1080741,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gilda_barabinosm_0.jpg?itok=yJLgqbKy"}}},"media_ids":["72624"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAdrianne Proeller\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2357\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:adrianne.proeller@bme.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eadrianne.proeller@bme.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["adrianne.proeller@bme.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}